Word: nested
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...savings, and, if they are widows, the proceeds of their late husband's life insurance. (Con artists avidly read obituary pages to spot new widows' names.) But the seniors know that they are likely to live much longer than their predecessors--maybe long enough to use up their nest egg. And many are fiercely determined never to become a burden to their kids. Sadly, that combination makes them easy prey for phony investment schemes...
...check his blood pressure," a family member said gravely during a break. Judge Jack Weinstein has ordered medical personnel to wear something other than white lab coats, and told the shabbily dressed Chin to present himself as something other than a One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest wannabe...
...Over and over, I tried to go around Friday, but she continued to block me, pushing me back with her chest. Frustrated, I began to cry. My mother had been watching Friday's unusual behavior, and as she approached she saw the reason Friday was blocking my path: a nest of copperhead snakes. Rottweilers have saved many more lives than they have taken. PATTY OXLEY-LEONARD Houston...
...penny from the property-tax rate. But Ocean City is a "crab-and-beer town, a pizza-and-popcorn town," say the town elders, and they draw the line at gambling. If Donald Trump tried to open up shop, the mayors agree, he would run into a hornet's nest...
...Andrea Gail's home port. For the younger fishermen the bars are home and family in the short weeks between the monthlong voyages to the Grand Banks. They make good money, $4,000 or $5,000 a trip, and buy a lot of drinks. At the Crow's Nest Inn on the day the sinking was reported, recalls the girlfriend of one of the drowned men, "everybody was drunk 'cause that's what we do, just drinkin' and drinkin' and cryin' and drinkin'..." The book's epigraph, from Sir Walter Scott, has it right: "It's no fish...